![]() ![]() As she recalls in her new autobiography, written with journalist Christopher Benson, she had debated whether to permit her only son to go to Mississippi, the place of her birth, without her. When news of Till's disappearance reached his mother in Chicago, she nearly fainted. He was beaten, killed and tossed into the Tallahatchie River. Milam, kidnapped Till from his great-uncle's home in the middle of the night. Three days later, Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and his half-brother, J.W. There Carolyn Bryant, the wife of the proprietor, concluded, without justification, according to Till's mother, that he had insulted her. One hot afternoon, Till and a few of his cousins and friends went to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market for refreshments. ![]() ![]() In late summer 1955, Mamie Till placed her 14-year-old son, Emmett, on an Illinois Central train heading south so he could spend two weeks visiting relatives in Money. ![]()
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